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Bliss & the Bigness of Who You Really Are

I had such a fun time recording this episode of the Wildspire Podcast with my friend Stephanie Benedetto of The Awakened Business. 

We talked about her transformation from fear and my own from brain injury. We talked about the transformational power of being in a feeling of who you are and how good it feels. We talked about curiosity, letting go of assumptions, and the nature of change. 

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did creating this episode of Wildspire Podcast. 

Bliss & the Bigness of Who You Really Are With Dr. Sara Joy O’Neill | Wildspire Podcast

Here’s some of what we explore:

  • The most powerful force in the universe (hint: you’re made of it)

  • The miraculous potential of saying, “This could change,” to our assumptions

  • Sara’s story of healing from a permanent brain injury the doctors said would never change

  • Creating fear in order to feel safe and then watching it dissolve

  • The delight in finding out you’re wrong about what’s possible

  • The resilience of being human

You can check it out on the blog here: https://www.theawakenedbusiness.com/bliss-sara-oneill/

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s1Ms-ke_40

On Wildspire via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SgFdNP8x5Oagt6AjxYhC0?si=88bc6551037c449a

With Love, 


Sara Joy

Salutogenesis

Salutogenesis

There's a lot going on!
 
As I mentioned in last week's blog, I sat down with the always wonderful Rob Cook, and we discussed deep listening, the first annual Listening World Summit: Listening from The Heart, and how listening is a Universal key to unlocking potential peace, health, and creativity personally and globally.
 
Listen to "We're Listening with Rob Cook" on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/we-re-listening/id1548161025?i=1000655143226  or on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/47ZfmNqP7LKW0qgVem1Puh?si=aa2e1e3be8564540
 
As many of you know, I've been helping organize an international summit conference in Prague and free online (https://thelisteningworld.com/) May 24-26.  Working with all the speakers, from many different backgrounds and countries who are bringing the inside-out understanding of life to the world in all their respective fields, has been a huge joy. I've also realized the depth and breadth of experience represented by this amazing group of people from psychiatry, psychotherapy, performance and executive coaching, to people reforming prison systems and educational systems worldwide. It's going to be a fantastic event.
 
I'm also super honoured and excited to announce that I have been asked to lead a 90-minute workshop on the Sunday at the Summit on our innate health and listening to the body's wisdom. The title is "Yeah, but What About the Body: Listening, Wisdom, and Innate Health".
 
It brings to mind one of my new favourite quotes from Dr. William Pettit, Jr.  "There is always hope because there is always health."
 
He wrote that primarily with mental health in mind; however, it's also true for physical health. Our mind and body are actually one thing and have innate health. What we call unhealthy is non-judgemental compensation or handling of challenges that arise in an effort to return to perfect functioning. The symptoms we don't like are actually the innate health of our body doing its job. It may require action on our part to help it along but often doesn't. We never stop expressing full health. We can also take salutogenic action to enhance body connection to innate health.
 
Salutogenesis is the study of factors that bring about health. When I was in school (both chiropractic and molecular biology degrees) salutogenesis was used to describe the inborn force observed at both a cellular and a larger physiology level that works behind the scenes to direct the unerringly perfect function of our bodies.
 
I recently wrote an email to one of the other doctor speakers at the conference about why salutogenesis is a concept worth exploring:
 
"What is this salutogenic force? It directs all intracellular activity. What genes get transcribed and when, what proteins form and when, what gets let into the cell and doesn't and when etc. At first, a chemical field was proposed and then discarded as no chemical field exists. Then electrical potential - nope. Now the current thinking is that there is an energy field that interacts with the greater energy field of the Universe at large and is directing cellular and molecular activity of our bodies. lol. We have the answer they are looking for. Also, the chiropractic profession looks for salutary principles. They say it's the removal of interference to the innate intelligence of the body in the form of thoughts, physical injury and chemical injury or toxicity e.g., poisoning. We have the answer they are looking for. "
 
The simple yet radical act of seeing your body, mind, and life as perfectly healthy while listening and trusting intuitive action is foundational.

With Love, 

Sara Joy

If You Do Anything Do These 3 Things

I had the amazing opportunity to be a guest on Susan Rosin’s “Healthy Tips After 50 Podcast”. Susan is a coach helping professional women optimize their busy work and family lives and she has a passion for living to her fullest. In her podcast, she shares the best of what she has learned over the years and has interesting guests.

Here is the link to listen in with Susan and I in conversation about World Class Wellness and aging with optimum vitality.

In talking with Susan, I realized that in my twenty years of practice there are 3 main areas that if you pay attention to these things as you age, you will have huge benefits in overall health and vitality.

If you consider how you Eat

How you Move

And how you Think


It is impossible to overstate the beneficial effects of optimizing these 3 areas as you age. It’s also never too early to start and never too late to get going. Think of it as an investment in your life.

A big reason for why these 3 things has to do with the effects of Toxins (what goes you’re your body hint: what you eat), Trauma (physical injury and how you move) and Thoughts (how thoughts affect your emotions and thereby your spine and thereby your whole being). These 3 areas are the main causes of unnecessary inflammation in the body.

In future articles, I will focus on each of the three areas of Eat, Move and Think and how we can optimize our vitality at any age.